Business Description

Seneca Foods Corp is a New York corporation founded in 1949. The Company, through its subsidiaries, provides packaged fruits and vegetables with facilities located throughout the United States. The Company's product offerings include canned, frozen and bottled produce and snack chips. Its products are sold under private label as well as national and regional brands that the Company owns or licenses, including Seneca, Libby's, Aunt Nellie's, READ, and Seneca Farms. The Company packs Green Giant, Le Sueur and other brands of canned vegetables as well as Green Giant frozen vegetables for General Mills Operations, LLC. The Company's facilities consisted of 22 packaging plants located throughout the United States, two can manufacturing plants, two seed packaging operations, a farming operation, and a logistical support network. It also maintains warehouses which are located adjacent to its packaging plants. The Company's products are sold by grocery outlets, including supermarkets, mass merchandisers, limited assortment stores, club stores and dollar stores. Additionally, products are sold to food service distributors, industrial markets, other food packagers, export customers in 90 countries and federal, state and local governments for school and other feeding programs. Food packaging operations are supported by plant locations in New York, California, Wisconsin, Washington, Idaho, Illinois, and Minnesota. The Company sells canned fruits and vegetables, frozen vegetables and other food products under other brands for which the Company has obtained registered trademarks, including, Aunt Nellie's, Stokely, Read, Seneca Farms, and Seneca and other regional brands. The Company is subject to federal, state, and local environmental protection authorities in developing and maintaining antipollution facilities. Further, it is also subject to state, national, and international regulations aimed at reducing the effects of climate change.

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